Stressed Parent blog

Get hints and tips to help change your child’s challenging behaviour.

The bear and the drawing pin

05/07/2022

Have you heard the story of the two people looking at the bear, who was sitting on a drawing pin? Find out how this story relates to challenging behaviour and how I can help you.

Parenting Stress Expert Gill Tree Provides Workshop in Somerset

31/05/2018

Single Mum from Frome Becomes Stress Expert to Parents with Challenging Children

Act As If

30/05/2018

  Many of you will have heard me recommend the tool “Acting as If” when you are struggling with your challenging child. It may be for example when you are about to blow your top th

What some Stressed Parents had to say

12/03/2018

    I find it to be a very useful resource and presented in a very calm manner which is so important if you're a stressed out parent watching it! The workbook is easy to use and no

Stopping Feeling Like A Victim

08/03/2018

How to cope when you feel like a victim I think we can take comfort in the fact that even the hardiest of us can fall prey to feeling like a victim when we are on the receiving end of constant viol

From Doing to Being

01/03/2018

From Doing to Being Today I just gave up all my plans of doing to just be. watched this lovely film of our amazing planet to music by Vangelis:

Stress reducing principles for parent support

19/02/2018

  Enjoy your children- Put out a game out to play and if they refuse to join in, just “play” it anyway- they may get drawn in Give them your full and complete for just 10 minute

Parent Support - What is Resilience?

19/02/2018

  In a nutshell resilience is the ability to bounce back, the capacity to bring out the best in you during the worst of times and where difficult situations are perceived as “not so

Parent Support - Blocked Care

19/02/2018

Dan Hughes and Jonathan Baylin in 2012 identified and named a syndrome they called Blocked care. Their research shows that if you don’t get enough positive strokes back from the person you ca

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